a das ree | = I wv “Now, for all those of you who have come along tonight to learn about the facts of life, we'll start with the cost of living!” ‘Tidal wave’ of high prices sweeps Canada Now it’s official—prices on almost all ‘types of goods sold in Canada are going up as a result of the devaluation of the Canadian dollar. When devaluation was first announced, Tim Buck, na- tional chairman of the Communist Party,- wrote in the Paci- fic Tribune, May 11, that its effects “would be a body blow to living standards. It will send up the prices of almost every- thing we buy. Confirmation of this prediction was revealed in a survey made public in the May 19 issue of the Financial Post. “A tidal wave of higher prices is sweeping across a broad business front,” announced the Post. "In the wake of the devaluation and pegging ot the Cana- dian dollar, price increases are being announced — or quietly put into effect — for a growing list of consumer and industrial items.” : For the average Canadian, the question is: “How will it affect me?” According to the Post, there have already been price in- creases in wheat, flour, imported cars, some metals, some food< stuffs and a number of retail goods. Spot checks in department stores, says the FP, show that the final price increases in some instances are equal to the entire 26-month-long 13 percent decline of the dollar. (The dollar began to decline when the government “fired” former governor of the Bank of Canada, James Coyne, after he followed a “tight money policy” which artificially kept up the value of the dollar). Coming soon are increases in the prices of some furniture, carpeting, clothing and imported construction materials. Higher prices with a more indirect effect on Mrs. Can- uck's pocket book are predicted for machine tools, office equipment and automobiles. SS S3 o : While S. Vietnam lcsecisies ceiee us. = itary corerats with mass suffering among the people, in N. Vietnam the people are going peacefully about their labors. Producfion, especially rice, has risen sharply. Photo shows a member of an agricul- tural co-op helping gather a bumper rice harvest. See the outstanding full-length documentary German Film “GERMAN MILITARISM FROM 1890 TO TO-DAY” Lonsdale Hall — 23rd & Lonsdale North Vancouver Tues. - June 5th - 8:30 p.m. This film is a powerful expose of the monopoly - military forces (Krupp) which once again plan for nuclear war. Contains actual shots of working class leaders — Frederick Engels, Karl Liebnecht & Ernst Thaelmann. % North Van. C’ttee, Communist Party Admission: 50c MAKE FARCE OF FREE PRESS COMMUNISTS DELIBERATELY BLACKED-OUT SAYS STEWART “The people of Vancou- ver are being given a “worthwhile exhibition of how free is the “free press” by the treatment being accorded the two Communist candidates running in Vancouver in this election,” William Stewart, candidate for Vancouver South and City Secretary of the Commun-~ ist Party told an election. meeting in Vancouver South this week. “A meeting in the Pender Auditorium addressed by “There is no question that such studied exclusion of the candidates and~ program of our party is a deliberate plot, hatched in the back rooms, to keep the main issues out of the election and to allow the old line parties, and to a lesser extent the NDP to deal with secondary issues. “Their antics will have the opposite effect,’ he said. “We are going to the people, hun- dreds of our supporters are busy knocking on _ doors, handing our leaflets, mailing materials, putting up posters, holding house teas, and mak- ing sure the fundamental questions of peace, Canadian independence and jobs be- come recognized as the tral issues before Canad “The Communist pro offers a real alternative the present policies of in Canada,” Stewart “and the parties of monoP realize this. They know our policies will receive wit support from electors wi they become acquainted 1% them. That is why they ' to black us out. “Many workers and porters who realize this coming forward to @& that our program gets every home in Vancou appeal to others to them.” Leslie Morris, National leader of the Party, attended by more than 600 people, receiv- ed not a single mention in the press, on the radio or .TV,” Stewart said. “Press releases, meetings and other activities by the Communist candidates are blacked out. Attempts have been made by the police and other civic authorities to pro- hibit the distribution of leaf- lets and posting of notices in the city. “The Vancouver Province, added to its marks for filthy journalism this week by com- pletely omitting the Com- munist Party’s candidate from its profiles of candi- dates in Vancouver South. “If you'd said at the start you were a Tory MP. we wouldn't have had to spend six weeks looking for the cause of this acute depression!” WILL NDP FACE CHALLENGE? Cont'd from page 1 Douglas needs to state how the NDP would end unemployment. He and the other NDP ~ leaders need to get down to the fundamental problems of our economy. They should show how U.S. domination has distorted and confined our expori trade, how it has led to the export of many thou- sands of jobs to the United States. They cannot do this without breaking with the suicidal cold war policy of integration with the U.S. They should come out squarely for far- reaching measures to restore to Canadians control over their own economy and their own foreign trade. They cannot avoid pro- posals for the nationalization of industries in Canada now owned by U.S. monopolies. * * #& There is within the program adopted by the NDP founding convention last summer a section dealing with the problem of foreign investment which, if it were lifted up, elab- orated upon, and fought for, would provide the basis for a qualitatively different cam- paign than is now being waged. _and immoral commitment to sterile p¥eP: US asks crackdown on Canadian trade WASHINGTON—A United States Congressional Committee headed by Rep. Paul Kitchin, this week urged Congress to adopt tighter controls to block Canada and other Western countries from trading with socialist countries. He asked that the U.S. govern- ment make major changes in the Export Control Act: which would not only put a ban on exports of mili- tary items, but any goods which help the economies of the socialist coun- tries. : He asked a firm stand be taken with Canada and other NATO coun- tries. June 1, The NDP is against nuclear weapon’ Canadian soil, and this is good, but its ers as a whole have still to make that break with the cold war which peace-l0¥ Canadians demand and without which government will keep Canada free from © lear weapons. Nowhere is this to be see? m clearly than in their continued support Canadian membership in the North Atl alliance. Every NDP candidate needs to spell 4h in the very forefront of his program appeal being made by Major Harry in Calgary North: “Let us end our {09 tions for war and help instead to build 2 i in the world committed to peace.” ; x x * NDP Leaders should stop suggesting they see Communism, rather than the Canadian monopolists, as the main -@” of the Canadian people. No one asks oF pects that they accept the point of view Communists. It is one thing to disagre@ Communists; it is quite another thi play the game of the monopolists by J° with them in anti-Communist tirades. ~ ing does more to cause honest working P. to doubt whether the NDP is a genuine native to the old parties. Focussing on the real issues of peace: I pendence and jobs, fighting the monoP instead of important sections of the bh class movement, the NDP could before ~ 18 win over many thousands of votes guarantee the election of a big bloc candidates. The Tribune appeals to every NDP *. ber and supporter to place these que™” before his candidate, his constituency — mittee, to drive home the need for %¥ re-orientation of the NDP campaign. The Tribune appeals to every member supporter of the Communist Party 10 P utmost effort into the party's camp} place before the Canadian people th® issue of survival, the real answers t to be found in policies which w0U Canada First, to elect the Communists i ridings where they are running, and to up the biggest vote against the old pat in the history of our country. ‘ 1962—PACIFIC. TRIBUNE?!